I'm sure this has been covered before, but how would one take the example in sweep-path.scad and preserve the circular rotations, but eliminate the rotations of the object around its own axis. That is, how would one keep the object flat (for example)? Thank you Jon

What you want is to control the sweep torsion. However, there is no such control in the sweep.scad. A modified version was proposed by Oskar Linde to minimize the torsion along the path. It may be found in http://forum.openscad.org/Twisty-problem-with-scad-utils-quot-sweep-quot-tc9775.html#a9784 <http://forum.openscad.org/Twisty-problem-with-scad-utils-quot-sweep-quot-tc9775.html#a9784> However, that is not enough to avoid unwanted torsions in all cases. The following code calculate an addition (or subtraction) of a specified rotation angle of the path_transforms: > // a simple rotation in Z > function zrotation(ang) = > let(c = cos(ang), s = sin(ang)) > [[ c, s, 0], [ -s, c, 0], [ 0, 0, 1]]; > > // a sequence of acumulated r transform > function accumulated_transform(r,n,_r=[]) = > (n==0)? > _r: > accumulated_transform( > r, > n-1, > (len(_r)==0)? [r] > : concat( _r, [r * _r[len(_r)-1]] ) > ); > // changes the initial and final rotation angle > function adjust_rotations(angi, angtot, path_transf) = > let( l = len(path_transf), > rot = zrotation(angtot/l), > rini = zrotation(angi), > w = [0,0,0,1], > rots = accumulated_transform(rot,l)) > [ for(i=[0:l-1]) > path_transf[i]*construct_rt(rots[i],w)*construct_rt(rini,w) ]; A tipical use of it i: > path_transf = construct_transform_path(path); > path_transforms = adjust_rotations(ini_ang,final_ang, path_transf); > sweep(section(), path_transforms, path); where ini_ang and final_ang is the additional initial angle and final angle of the section rotations. Hope it helps. -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/redundant-question-tp17808p17810.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.